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Morris Ertman saves the good scripts for himself. The longtime artistic director of Rosebud may be an old soul who sees the big picture on most issues, but when he gets his hands on a nuanced, well-written script, like Doubt: A Parable, by a Pulitzer Prize (and Academy Award) winning playwright John Patrick Shanley, he won’t let go.

VATICAN CITY - Members of Pope Francis' sexual abuse advisory board said Saturday they will develop "clear and effective" protocols to hold bishops and other church authorities accountable if they fail to report suspected abuse or protect children from pedophile priests.

Sue Higgins was opinionated, outspoken and no-nonsense to the very end. Even while making funeral plans, Calgary’s “alderbroad” was giving good friend and former mayor Dave Bronconnier “specific instructions” on the eulogy he would deliver and even what to wear that day.

Before Columbus, many maps of the world showed Jerusalem as the centre of the world. Jerusalem - holy, treasured, and long fought over by the three great monotheistic religions - has been destroyed and rebuilt more than a dozen times.

Amsterdam has history, but it sure isn’t old. Hip and happening, the art enclave and adult playground has a knack for fusing its rich past with liberal pursuits. While many folks think of Europe as a summer destination, winter will reward you with less crowds and illuminating activities to brighten up gloomy days. For an enlightening winter fix, consider going Dutch.

The Louvre is Europe's oldest, biggest, greatest, and second-most-crowded museum (after the Vatican). It's home to Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, Michelangelo statues, and paintings by the greatest artists from the Renaissance to the Romantics. Lately it is also home to groups of pickpockets.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Russia should not be handed a veto over how the world responds to an unprecedented threat to its security, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday as Canada and nine other nations backed the American position on Syria.

Possessed bodies skitter across the floor, monsters suddenly appear in dark bedrooms, a lost little boy is reflected in the mirror of an antique jack-in-the-box, birds mysteriously crash against the side of the house, there are strange thumps in the basement ... This is The Conjuring, not just a horror film but every horror film: it’s like a reunion of tropes, and while some of them can scare the heck out of you, there’s also the uneasy feeling that we’ve had this heck scared out of us before.

Dozens of Bangladeshi garment workers, their bodies too battered or decomposed to be identified, were buried in a mass funeral Wednesday, a week after the eight-story building they worked in toppled down, killing at least 410 people and injuring thousands.

CALGARY — New Pope Francis is just what the world needs right now — a Pope of the people, says Calgary Roman Catholic Bishop Fred Henry. As the world turns its eyes to the Vatican Tuesday for the official installation of Pope Francis as spiritual leader of the globe’s more than one billion Catholics, Henry said the Pope has already started preaching and doing so in simple ways “that are amazing.”

Marc Ouellet of Canada almost became the Roman Catholic Church’s first pontiff from the New World before asking his backers to switch their support to the eventual winner, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina who has taken the name Francis I.

The next Pope should be one capable of moving the Catholic Church further into the modern age of communication, says Bishop Fred Henry, Calgary’s Roman Catholic Bishop. With the surprise announcement Monday that Pope Benedict XVI is resigning at the end of the month due to health reasons, speculation has already begun on who will become the next Pontiff when the cardinals meet at the Vatican in March to decide the future of the Church.

Chatting with MLA Craig Coolahan about the Alberta Heritage Fund this week, a more burning topic of public debate sparked up. Should the Alberta government run its own pot stores? The NDP MLA for Calgary-Klein said the topic keeps resurfacing, particularly as the deadline for public feedback on Alberta’s new marijuana framework wraps up Friday. […]

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